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B-292758 1 (2003-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General ... .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Weeks Marine, Inc. File: B-292758 Date: October 16, 2003 Timothy A. Sullivan, Esq., Starfield & Payne, for the protester. Daniel C. Sauls, Esq., and Douglas L. Hilleboe, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson LLP, for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, an intervenor. Joseph J. Cox, Esq., Lorraine C. Lee, Esq., and Rita M. Fang, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably accepted late bid where the paramount cause of the late receipt was affirmative misdirection by the agency and where consideration of the late bid did not compromise the integrity of the competitive procurement system. DECISION Weeks Marine, Inc. protests the decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accept the apparent low bid submitted by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DACW51-03-B-0013, issued for the Maintenance Dredging Shinnecock Inlet Interim Beach Nourishment Project. Weeks, the second low bidder, argues that the bid submitted by Great Lakes was late and should have been rejected because it did not qualify under any of the exceptions to the late bidding rules. We deny the protest. The IFB provided that sealed bids were due in original, with one copy, at the place specified in Item 8 by 11:00 AM local time on August 22, 2003.' IFB, Standard Form 'The original date for bid opening, August 18, 2003, was changed by amendment. See IFB, amend. No. 001.

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